Strawdogs

05/12/2009 Human Observations
I was searching for my favorite jazz station, always located at the left side of the FM radio band, when I happened across a conversation between the talk-radio pitchman and his female guest. She was dissecting the seeds of sin within the feminist movement. I found it interesting, and rather annoying, in that citing the errors of the women’s movement of the twentieth century, she managed to tie its supporters to a philosophy that would offend anyone. This was the justification for bashing the movement that gained what small advances women enjoy even today. The playing field is not yet completely equal, but there is measurable progress. I was a supporter of equal rights for women back in the 1960‘s. I was also a demonstrator for equal rights for All Americans, regardless of race, gender, or religion … to freely and equally participate in elections, to acquire any housing, and to have access to any job offered in America. Yet, I was unschooled in the “fullness” of the doctrines of pagans who would sacrifice children, knowingly choose idols over the God of the bible, or drink blood. I just wanted my mother and sisters to have the right to vote, to live where they chose, and do so within the protected confines of our American version of civilized society. So very many women sacrificed so very much so that a woman would have the freedom to access and utilize a national radio forum for something other than “fluff”. To this day, I would remind men and women alike, that only yesterday women were unable to consider working as the Secretary of State, personally owning a million dollar home, or speaking as the leader of the United States House of Representatives. There will always be the radical voices that would associate themselves with planetary progress; let us not be so consumed with those voices that we no longer listen to those who stand for equality, dignity, and freedom.